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Annual, Persons, thousands

Source: Maddison Project Database 2023

Population, long-run history: latest observations by country
Date	Cuba	Romania	Congo - Kinshasa
Dec 31, 1999	11,108	22,414	51,181
Dec 31, 2000	11,147	22,262	52,782
Dec 31, 2001	11,179	22,106	54,453
Dec 31, 2002	11,210	21,931	56,170
Dec 31, 2003	11,241	21,828	57,860
Dec 31, 2004	11,260	21,704	59,599
Dec 31, 2005	11,268	21,571	61,474
Dec 31, 2006	11,266	21,443	63,479
Dec 31, 2007	11,261	21,129	65,590
Dec 31, 2008	11,258	20,779	67,800
Dec 31, 2009	11,260	20,607	70,114
Dec 31, 2010	11,262	20,485	72,550
Dec 31, 2011	11,264	20,385	75,138
Dec 31, 2012	11,262	20,296	77,792
Dec 31, 2013	11,250	20,224	80,534
Dec 31, 2014	11,238	20,151	83,368
Dec 31, 2015	11,214	20,055	86,229
Dec 31, 2016	11,180	19,938	89,193
Dec 31, 2017	11,147	19,823	92,209
Dec 31, 2018	11,116	19,713	95,232
Dec 31, 2019	11,105	19,622	98,320
Dec 31, 2020	11,089	19,496	101,499
Dec 31, 2021	11,046	19,351	104,767
Dec 31, 2022	11,003	19,266	108,171

Source: Bolt, J. and van Zanden, J.L. (2024), Maddison style estimates of the evolution of the world economy: A new 2023 update, Journal of Economic Surveys, 1-41, DOI 10.1111/joes.12618. Licensed under CC BY 4.0. The original sources are listed on each page.

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Original sources of these estimates

GDP pc: 2008 - 2022: Total Economy Database the Conference Board for all countries included in TED. Otherwise UN national accounts statistics

Cuba

1690–1895: Santamaria Garcia, A. (2005). Las Cuentas nacionales de Cuba, 1960 - 2005', mimeo
1902–1958: Ward, M. and Devereux, J. (2012), “The Road Not Taken: Pre-Revolutionary Cuban Living Standards in Comparative Perspective” Journal of Economic History, 72(1): 104–132

Romania

1862–1995: Axenciuc, V. (2012). Produsul intern brut al Romaniei, Vol. 1, Institutl de Economie Nationala, Bucarest
1915-1919 & 1949: Voinea, L., Cojocaru, A., Costache, B., Grigoraș, V., Lovin, H., Neagu, C., Orțan, D., & Tănase, A. (2019). One Hundred Years of Honesty: Recovering the Lost Memory of the Romanian Economy 1918-2018.

No separate list is published for Congo - Kinshasa; the database as a whole is cited above.